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All Fatal FBI Shootings Were Justified, According to the FBI

In light of the FBI's assurances that it's reviewing the fatal shooting of Ibragim Todashev, a man questioned in the Boston bombing case, by an FBI agent last month, The New York Times took a look at the results of the agency's previous internal investigations. Their finding: From 1993 to early 2011 FBI agents fatally shot about 70 "subjects" and wounded about 80 others, and in each case the internal investigation found that the shooting was justified.

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Arrest Made in Umbrella Killing of Livery Cab Driver

Police have made an arrest in the killing of a livery driver last week by a stab to the eye — with an umbrella as it turned out. Officers tracked down Shamel Allen, 28, who lives just two blocks from where the killing took place, after a witness identified him in a lineup. They found him "cowering in the closet of an acquaintance's home," the Daily News reports. Cops are still looking for a woman thought to be with him, who fled the scene carrying a white purse.

Journalist Michael Hastings, Who Profiled Stanley McChrystal, Has Died

Michael Hastings, the 33-year-old BuzzFeed reporter and Rolling Stone contributor who wrote the blockbuster profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal that led to McChrystal's resignation, died in a car crash early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles. According to Los Angeles Weekly, he was the sole victim in the single-vehicle crash on Highland Avenue near Melrose Avenue, reported at about 4:25 a.m. His most famous article, "The Runaway General," won the 2010 Polk Award for magazine reporting, but it is hardly the only thing that earned Hastings his reputation for speaking truth to power.

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Hate-Crime Murder Suspect Bragged, 'He Thought He Was Tough, So I Shot Him'

Police said last month that Elliot Morales was laughing as they arrested him for allegedly shooting Mark Carson in the West Village, and according to court papers unsealed on Tuesday, he also bragged about why he committed the murder. "He thought he was tough, and I shot him. It's the last thing he'll remember," said Morales, who police say made homophobic remarks to a bartender, then followed Carson and his friends while hurling gay slurs. He added, "Guy thought he was tough in front of his bitch so I shot him. Diagnosis is dead, doctor."

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Facebook and Twitter Are Slowly Becoming Each Other

Facebook has been borrowing features from other social networks, and vice versa, for years. But as the war between Facebook and Twitter heats up, the appropriations are becoming more blatant.

In the last few weeks alone, Facebook has added Twitter-style hashtags and verified profiles. And this week, TechCrunch reports that Facebook-owned Instagram will be adding a video feature, essentially aping Twitter's Vine. The announcement of Instavideo will apparently come at an event on Thursday at Facebook's headquarters.

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Mitch McConnell’s Not-Very-Threatening Filibuster Threat

Harry Reid has been threatening to change the Senate rules on nominations, so that a minority of senators can’t prevent a president from filling vacancies in the judiciary or his own administration. Today Mitch McConnell responded with a threat of his own: If Reid does that, whenever McConnell gets the majority, he’ll change the rules to allow a straight majority rule on everything.

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Literary NYPD T-Shirt Brags About the ‘Hunting of Man’

The New York Police Department's all-time favorite Ernest Hemingway line is, apparently, "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter," which is frightening. Members of the department's Warrant Squad, the division that targets fugitives, were seen recently wearing the slogan on T-shirts outside of a Queens court, perhaps in violation of dress code, but the aggressive sentiment has been floating around NYPD halls for some time.

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